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How to pronounce accelerando in English?

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Type of pacing, tempo


my ear will not accept such violent accelerandos.
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here you must play accelerando.

Examples of accelerando

accelerando
An expanse of heads nodded rhythmically until a galloping accelerando brought the audience to their feet.
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Know your rallentando from your accelerando?
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Rallentando is the opposite of accelerando.
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Tape recorder in hand, he simply camps at the seashore or in a rain forest, and lets Mother Nature herself compose an accelerando of breaking waves or a pizzicato polka of storm effects.
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  • Gradually increasing in tempo
  • With increasing speed; "here you must play accelerando"
  • Accelerando is a 2005 science fiction novel consisting of a series of interconnected short stories by British author Charles Stross. ...
  • A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed; A passage having this mark; describing a passage having this mark; with a gradual increase in speed
  • Speeding up (abbreviation: accel.)
  • Italian tempo marking meaning to gradually accelerate or speed up.
  • The new renaissance at the end of the 22nd century. Main article.
  • Getting faster as the section of the piece marked goes on.
  • Gradually getting faster.